Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Great shout. One of my favourites.
Once closed a big deal there and had some outrageous desert wine to celebrate. Glorious stuff.
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She's single I hear.
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She's the right sort of age for 'Loon as well 😀
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I'm sure one could spend a stupid amount there if one went à la carte and got into the wine list, but IIRC we all did a set price lunchtime menu and chose a modest wine or two. I think it worked out at about £150 each all-in for the day.
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Yeah you can make a real afternoon of it. I quite like the table spacing too. Just that bit more room so it’s not a massive loud sensory overload.
Service is borderline too perfunctory for my taste but hey, it’s Parisian and look at the setting.
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Yeah, I'm much more a fan of the relaxed-but-attentive style of service that the French can do so well, but I guess that people who go here are probably expecting starch.
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Yeah. I guess being sneered at by a local is part of the authentic Parisian experience.
If you’re ever at a loose end hanging around Gard du Nord waiting for a train, i have a recommendation.
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Rarely go that far north if I can help it... 😉 But thanks, will ask if I do.
Actually, last time I was there was during an SNCF strike, and had the scariest Blabla car share down to Valence. Personally I prefer drivers to have at least one hand on the steering wheel and not to be texting and talking at length on a not-hands-free phone. But maybe I'm just being overly critical.
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Yeah. I find staying in Gare du Nord is actually quite handy for work, as you can just pick up your bag on your way back from your final meeting before you head home.
Off the main road the side streets are smartening up. And it’s not often you get to eat a Paris-Brest desert.
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Mike 'Growing Concrete' Graham thinking he can school the Archbish of Cant on what the day before Easter Sunday is called. He is so stupid he thinks he's clever, and wants to let everyone know.
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Haha. A village I've been to a couple of times became famous for being the smallest village in France, having had one inhabitant since 1999 (I think) when his wife left him. Well, now a few second-home owners are going to live there full time, so it'll lose its title. But the title will pass to a la Bâtie-des-Fonds, still in my Diois playground, with a grand total of two inhabitants.
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One upside of the hours spent trying go get the lad to sleep (futile) is I’ve watched a lot of TV that I like to watch.
Finished the sopranos, succession, watched all of apolcypes now on bbc 2 last night, now rewatching true detective.
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Sopranos might be next on the list of DVD box sets to watch while I'm tooting my trumpet. I ought to get back my Wire, and might yet get Hill Street Blues, though don't know how dated that will seem now.
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Yeah I’m a wire guy first and foremost. Sopranos is good. Wasn’t really what I was expecting. Sounds obvious but it’s much more about the family than the organised crime which was much more interesting tbh.
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Was always good when the England cricket team was on tour somewhere east.
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9 year old grandson is suddenly keen for cycling again. Trouble is he’s out grown his kit however he can now wear a pair of my large Assos bib shorts and they are only a bit loose on his thighs. I lent him a pair of Lycra track mitts for todays ride only to find he’d been wearing them with the padding on the back of his hands😀
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Things that cheer me up - A 9 year old born again cyclist. 😎
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Christ, how small are you and how big is he?
seanoconn - gruagach craic!1 -
As said he wore a pair of LARGE Assos bib shorts.
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Getting to the bus station after evening out and catching an earlier bus than expected 😎
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A decent Côtes de Rhône for about £4. Well, it must be decent, as it's got one of those sticker thingies.
Anyway, as it's so cheap, I chucked a glass in the sausage casserole. Just deciding what to do with the rest...
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Isn’t the key to French wines the denomination on the top of the cork?
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Nothing in the Universe rivals the power unleashed during a gamma-ray burst, a brief but incredibly intense flash of high-energy radiation.
There are many types of gamma-ray burst: some are thought to form when a massive star implodes; others when two neutron stars merge together.
Gamma-ray bursts release more energy in 10 seconds than our Sun will in its entire life.
If Cern could create a Gamma ray burst we'd be able to charge all the future EV cars well easy.
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Wrong word? Anyway, this - https://www.the-drink-talking.com/blogs/news/french-wine-tops-what-the-colours-and-letters-mean
Basically, you want Green “R”.
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Thanks, will look next time. The local supermarkets, not surprisingly, do a good selection of local wines, given that 'local' includes not only the CdR such as Châteauneuf du Pape and a big selection of other CdRs, but a good range of very local clairettes and crémants. Champagne is so yesterday.
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Wouldn't be anything left alive to drive them but apart from that...
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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‘‘Twas a friendly Frenchman who gave me a brief course in reading wine labels in a supermarket. I am forever in his debt.
Just shows that sometimes the “nutter” inconveniencing you may well just be imparting knowledge.
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Going out for an afternoon ride (not having been sure if I wanted to), finding orchids en route and dry laundry by the time I got back. Makes up for the general greyness.
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General greyness here too. That meant the wife didn’t want to do anything so I had free rein to go for a cycle.
It also cheered me up to see local cyclists out for their Sunday pedal wearing full winter gear as it wasn’t sunny. It was 25C. 😂
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